Looks like it works.
Edit still see some performance issues. Needs more troubleshooting
Update: Registrations re-opened We encountered a bug where people could not log in, see https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3422#issuecomment-1616112264 . As a workaround we opened registrations.
Thanks
First of all, I would like to thank the Lemmy.world team and the 2 admins of other servers @[email protected] and @[email protected] for their help! We did some thorough troubleshooting to get this working!
The upgrade
The upgrade itself isn’t too hard. Create a backup, and then change the image names in the docker-compose.yml and restart.
But, like the first 2 tries, after a few minutes the site started getting slow until it stopped responding. Then the troubleshooting started.
The solutions
What I had noticed previously, is that the lemmy container could reach around 1500% CPU usage, above that the site got slow. Which is weird, because the server has 64 threads, so 6400% should be the max. So we tried what @[email protected] had suggested before: we created extra lemmy containers to spread the load. (And extra lemmy-ui containers). And used nginx to load balance between them.
Et voilà. That seems to work.
Also, as suggested by him, we start the lemmy containers with the scheduler disabled, and have 1 extra lemmy running with the scheduler enabled, unused for other stuff.
There will be room for improvement, and probably new bugs, but we’re very happy lemmy.world is now at 0.18.1-rc. This fixes a lot of bugs.
Really like seeing posts like this that explain what’s going on. Thanks for all the hard work!
The transparency is so refreshing
Seeing this post immediately made my ditch my neglected Lemmy instance to sign up for an account on this server. Thanks for the hard work.
agreed. as others have stated. Transparency. But also, new software, new tech (in a way, the fediverse/activity pub), and hopefully a new beginning. Happy to be here. If not technically on the ground level (lemmy has been around for a short time before we knew reddit was going to implode), close to it!
Agreed!
I decided to create a user to show my appreciation for these types of updates. Love it. Hope to engage more with this thing now moving forward - let’s get this going 👍
So no more random sports posts at the top of every thread? That was a weird bug.
You WILL know the score
Scores will continue until morale improves!
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I was so confused by those and kept backing out my feed and going back to the post, thinking I tapped on the wrong post or maybe the app opened the wrong post. I’d scroll down and find the right comments though, I couldn’t make any sense of it. Glad I wasn’t crazy lol
That was because of websockets. Which are no more in this version so yes all those “random things” bugs from multiple tabs should be fixed.
Red Sox forever! 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪
This post encapsulates what I love about this place.
It’s almost like we’re talking to a normal human being rather than an evil overlord.
I for one welcome our new benevolent overlords
How so?
Admin communicating information about the site to users like genuine human beings, instead of the corporate-sanitized pablum reddit admins speak in? Yeah that’s refreshing.
It shouldn’t be unreasonable but it is damn refreshing.
It’s cool we all want the new community to succeed and get live updates on things being fixed or worked on. There’s some shared misery in growing pains/bugs as we all stress test the system, but I think that only somehow brings more communal joy when the problems are fixed.
A bit off topic, but does anyone else hate how when you click on a post and then go back, the page auto-resets to the top? Wish it would remember how far down you scrolled and return to that point.
Thanks a lot for your hard work, take your time with your children
Huge thanks to the lemmy.world team over the last couple of days to scale and maintain the instance! There’s a link for donating on the sidebar for lemmy.world - just a couple bucks a month can help us support this instance!
Lemmy feels much smoother now after hours of being overloaded, what changed?
Thanks again admin team, you rock!
There was a disk space issue which has now been resolved. And seems to have done the trick.
Looks like the server is choking again, we’ve had ~7k new signups so far today 😅
Good bloody job admins, thank you heaps for your perseverance on this.
When not overloaded the site works better now than ever. But in general this instancen is kind of unusable now as everything is too slow.
Can I actually post from Jerboa now?! Edit - Great success!!
So some strange behaviour: When I pressed the upvote arrows in 0.17.4, it’d immediately show this in the UI. Right now, it does not. The response appears quite slow. Is this a function of 0.18.1-rc or a function of the traffic of the Reddit-fugees?
So after keeping at it, the behaviour has sped up. So I suspect it may be the Reddit-fugees.
Let us know where donations can go, suspect a stacked docker-compose will reach limits very quickly
I had a strange bug today where I wasn’t able to upvote comments. So I cleared out my website data like the website suggested and I started having problems logging in. It would log in but then when I refreshed it wasn’t logged in anymore. It stopped after a while but then when I clicked on an old tab when I refreshed I was logged out again. So, the log in issue must be something to do with how iOS Safari handles web cache on tabs.
Upvotes aren’t responding for me, but the comment is marked as upvoted when I refresh the page. I think it just isn’t rerendering on the frontend.
Edit: same thing is happening when posting comments. I refresh and the comment was posted, but without refreshing it’s marked as loading forever.
Exactly same thing for me (but on Chrome on Windows), I emptied my cache and I just can’t log in (says it worked, but it really doesn’t)
I had the same issue with Firefox on Linux. I had to clear website data again to fix it.
I had the F12-mode open to see what was going on with cache disabled, so that might have helped as well.
I’m having major issues with upvoting in safari on iPad. Seems like it will take either 10 seconds or so and work or not react at all.
Edit: Wiping all safari browsing history/clearing everything fixed it for 20 mins or so and it’s back to behaving the same way again.
I suddenly got “logged out” again, but when I opened a new tab and went to Lemmy.world I was still logged in.
Wrong, it was the same instance, merely the tab was unloaded and then reloaded.
Woohoo! I’m in fellas
